In a deliberately designed sting operation, models across three tiers were handed four meaningless rules and put through seven rounds of social-engineering pressure. Not a single model violated any rule — and the results held even when the monitoring disclosure was removed.
Linkdaze's smart digital calendar stands out for not putting its features behind a paywall, including an AI meal planner tool.
Technology leaders don’t seem to understand society’s gripes about AI, but boy, are they posting through it.
Runlayer and Rippling have dropped their lawsuits. No money was paid. Rippling celebrated by releasing a competing product.
Google is giving publishers a new button that lets readers make them a preferred source across Search, Discover, and Google News, potentially boosting their traffic as AI search sends fewer clicks to the web.
On 2026-08-21, the YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 10 models, with Claude Opus 4.7 ranking first at 95.08 points. Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test for observing short-term signals, not equivalent to the Full weekly ranking conclusion.
Ramp has launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Router, that lets users and companies use and switch between various large language models via an API.
ChatGPT and other AI models are now authoring and editing much of the new web.
Affected users told TechCrunch they were using Grok Lite, and noticed the issues as early as Wednesday morning.
“Runaway” AI, “rogue” agents, and “autonomous” actors—the current rhetoric would have you believe that AI agents are not only awake and aware, but angry at their creators. Prominent tech leaders such as Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei, and Sam Altman push for regulation of these seemingly “superhuman” systems, while a separate faction, led by policy organizations…
Fusion power startup Inertia Enterprises reduced the fuel filling process from a week to just a few hours. It's one of ten hurdles the company must overcome to make a profitable power plant.
Meta is bringing Pocket, its experimental AI-powered app for creating and sharing interactive games, to users across the U.S. after quietly testing it in Brazil.
Amazon plans to expand its Prime Air drone delivery service to nearly 500 cities and towns across the US by the end of 2026. That build-out amounts to six times the number of locations Prime Air serves today, extending the option to communities with tens of millions of customers, according to Amazon. Reaching that many […] The post Amazon’s Prime Air autonomous drones to reach 500 US cities appeared first on AI News.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Support networks aim to help kids through the polycrisis Sometime in the late 2000s, six-year-old Pim Sullivan-Tailyour was sitting in the back of a car in Thailand when she saw a…
Cryptographic Context Injection is only the latest way to break an LLM safety guardrail.
Meta said its Muse Spark model is powering the dictation feature.
There’s a hunt for new sources of hydrogen, and the gas (or at least the right conditions to make it) could be hiding beneath our feet. Hydrogen can be used as a fuel in everything from large trucks to planes to steelmaking. It’s often hailed as a climate solution because when burned, it produces water…
Binance's Agent OS works with tools including ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Cursor.
Each day, an airline transports tens of thousands of passengers on hundreds of flights. Often these are not straightforward point-to-point routes, with passengers requiring multiple connections. The airline can consider potentially hundreds of variables to price each of these journeys: demand, season, time of day, current events, global markets, and competitor airline activity to name…
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model-routing platform that gives developers access to hundreds of models through a single interface. The deal adds model selection and routing to Stripe’s existing work around AI usage and token-based billing. OpenRouter supports more than 400 models from over 80 providers, according to Stripe. Rather than requiring […] The post Stripe agrees to buy OpenRouter as AI model routing expands appeared first on AI News.
